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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments
Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections
SC greenlights Central Vista project, decision split 2:1
Justice Sanjiv Khanna has dissented on the change of land use whereas Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari gave the majority opinion
After communal clashes, more Indore village homes demolished for ‘road-widening’
MP Chronology: Communal clashes, victims arrested, homes demolished, to be continued…
EXCLUSIVE! River erosion washes away over 35 percent of Assam’s agricultural land
Erosion of land has been a key reason for migration, and therefore a major factor affecting the citizenship issue in Assam
The people: The Sovereign
Politics now has a new basis in obedience in place of aspiration and revolt
Stalemate for seventh time! Farmers confirm that January protest will continue on schedule
Farmer leaders claim the government seems to be testing peasants but assure continued protests and agitations regardless.
Reliance Industries claims it stands with farmers, not for contract farming
Taken aback by the severe condemnation of Indian farmers, Reliance Industries published a statement assuring farmers that it will not engage in contract farming
70-year-old becomes first person to be killed in Kashmir, after getting domicile tag
Satpal Nischal had run his jewellery shop in the heart of Srinagar for four decades, was shot just weeks after he got the certificate
They want to ‘audit’ my father’s grave: Mehbooba Mufti
Mufti had written to Enforcement Directorate, stating that the investigation agency was being used to target her and her family
Farmers protest faces new enemy in the form of winter rains
While farmers’ organisations worry about farmers’ wellbeing, protesting farmers say they will protest in the rain if necessary, until the three laws are repealed!
Calendar dedicated to Comrade Tera Singh Chan released
The family of the towering progressive poet, playwright and freedom fighter who had educated the toiling masses about their rights through theatre, unveiled the calendar in Delta on January 2
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